The Department of Defense (DOD) is a U.S. government agency responsible for military and national security space activities. It acts as a major procurer and operator of space systems, including launch vehicles and satellite systems for reconnaissance, missile launch detection, navigation, and communication. The DOD aims to maintain space superiority, integrate military space power, and ensure space stability, working with commercial firms to integrate space solutions into national security architectures.
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Barnes’ office has a staff of about 75 people and serves as the central coordinator between Space Force personnel in the Pentagon and in Colorado Springs.
Space Force headquarters will be established at the Pentagon with a staff of 200.
President Trump publicly directed the Pentagon in June 2018 to create a U.S. Space Force, instructing then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford to implement the order.
The U.S. Space Force was established within the Department of the Air Force by renaming Air Force Space Command and directing the Department of Defense to form the new branch with existing Air Force resources.
Prox-1 was one of 24 small satellites that launched on Falcon Heavy as part of the U.S. Defense Department’s Space Test Program-2 mission.
The Pentagon’s Space Development Agency is soliciting pitches for technologies to build a network of satellites in low Earth orbit to help the military find ground targets and track enemy missiles in flight.
The Pentagon-based Space Force staff has about 40 people and is planned to grow to 200 by March.
President Donald Trump directed the Defense Department in June 2018 to stand up a new military service for space.
The retired NOAA geostationary weather satellite previously known as Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-13 has been renamed Department of Defense-1.
PROSWIFT directs the National Science and Technology Council to establish an interagency working group on space weather that includes NOAA, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and the Department of the Interior.
Melanie Preisser is vice president of national systems at York Space Systems and is a former U.S. Air Force officer who oversaw space and intelligence programs at the Pentagon and the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
The Department of Defense planned for the Space Force organizational and staffing details to take at least 18 months to sort out.
The Office of the Chief of Space Operations will be established at the Pentagon over the 60 days following 2019-12-20 and will initially be staffed with about 40 people from the Space Force Planning Task Force.
The $738,000,000,000 NDAA authorizes $635,000,000,000 for base Pentagon spending.
The Department of Defense must submit to Congress within 180 days a report on integrating space capabilities with the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and U.S. Space Command.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 directed the Government Accountability Office to review the Department of Defense’s Wideband AoA.
The Department of Defense spends an average of $4,000,000,000 per year to acquire and sustain wideband satellite communications.
The Department of Defense must develop a plan to acquire user terminals as part of its future wideband architecture.
In May 2018 congressional appropriators added $600,000,000 to the Air Force’s budget to procure two additional WGS satellites that the Department of Defense had not requested.
The Wideband AoA recommended that the Department of Defense develop a strategy to centralize user terminal procurement, but that strategy has not been implemented.